Lost & Found for Git: tag all dangling commits, for those wonderful “oh shit” moments (and cleanup those tags after recovered the lost path)

git-lf

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Tags all dangling commits in a Git repo (for the wonderful “oh shit” moments).
# @from: https://gist.github.com/capnslipp/2656868

git fsck --lost-found #--no-reflogs --full --root --cache --tags --unreachable
find '.git/lost-found/commit' -type f | while read i; do
	commit_sha=`cat "$i"`
	git tag -f "git-lf/commit/$commit_sha" $commit_sha
done

if [ -f '.git/lost-found/other' ]; then
	find '.git/lost-found/other' -type f | while read i; do
		commit_sha=`cat "$i"`
		echo "git tag -f \"git-lf/other/$commit_sha\" $commit_sha"
	done
fi

# @note: I'm not sure what to do with “other dangling objects” in .git/lost-found/commit; they tend to report “fatal: bad object” when passed to git-show.

git-lf-cleanup

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Removes all “git-lf/” prefixed tags added by git-lf.
# @from: https://gist.github.com/slippyd/2656868

git tag --list 'git-lf/*' | xargs git tag -d

# This is safe to do, right?
rm -rf .git/lost-found